Zensurance is hiring a
Tech Lead

Summary

The job is a remote Tech Lead position at Zensurance, an InsurTech company in Canada. The role involves leading the Accounts Tooling and Automation Team (ATAT) to build and enhance tooling for the Digital Platform, focusing on Cancellations and Endorsements features initially.

Requirements

• University degree or college diploma in a recognized technical, vocational or academic program or equivalent work experience
• 7+ years of experience building rich, complex and scalable APIs
• 5+ years of building front-end web applications using modern Javascript frameworks
• 2+ experience in designing scalable and distributed systems
• Experience mentoring other developers
• Extensive full-stack experience working with React/Redux/Node/Typescript/MongoDB and Javascript
• Extensive experience with the Scrum framework and Agile methodologies
• Experience creating effective documentation, such as architecture diagrams and Architecture Decision Records (ADRs)
• Experience with responsive web design, accessibility, and executing on best practices for UX/UI
• Experience architecting and augmenting large software systems
• Experience with Javascript development toolings like WebPack, Babel, and Storybook
• Experience with Unit Testing frameworks like Jest/Mocha
• Experience building and/or working with micro-services and micro front-ends

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with project stakeholders and the development team to design, build, and implement scalable, user-friendly apps and libraries using Node, React, and Typescript
• Collaborate with Product Management to examine, adjust, and break down roadmap items into epics and break down epics into discreet, actionable, appropriately sized tickets in the team’s backlog
• Provide a technical perspective on organizational objectives within the team’s scope of activities. Analyze requirements, identify areas of concern, and provide recommendations based on your extensive technical background
• Using POC models provided by Staff Developers, design and implement systems and infrastructure in accordance with the team’s vision and culture
• Adhere to the organization’s security strategy using a security-first mindset
• Discuss various strategies and architecture and highlight tradeoffs for potential solutions
• Perform code reviews, ensuring that pull requests accurately reflect the acceptance criteria of the tickets they address
• Use quality metrics to identify gaps in the testing strategy
• Work with teams to recommend solutions that are in accordance with accepted testing frameworks
• Define and prioritize areas of technical debt and bugs, taking into consideration outcomes of the incident management process and addressing them with the team
• Foster a culture of iterative deployability with awareness of cycle time and failure rates
• Coach and mentor the development team and work to expand their technical knowledge and skills
• Use a systematic approach to debugging to diagnose issues within the application
• Write unit tests as well as higher-level tests to ensure application quality and stability
• Consistently produce production-ready code. that is easily testable, easily understandable, and accounts for edge cases and errors, using comments and other documentation strategies where appropriate
• Follow Agile practices, suggest improvements, and participate in team events
• Develop a strong understanding of the company’s goals and initiatives and help the engineering team deliver on those goals/initiatives
• Ensure technical standards such as accessibility, performance, security, maintainability, functional correctness, operability and observability are observed in the modules developed and maintained by the team
• Document decisions, research and guides to foster and build a culture of continuous learning and continuous improvement
• Perform other duties as assigned

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with DORA metrics to measure the DevOps Performance and experience in communicating what’s been measured with the team
• Familiarity with OKRs (Objectives and Key Results) framework

Benefits

• Comprehensive and flexible health and dental plans to suit all lifestyles, including mental health
• Health/Personal Spending Accounts to subsidize your healthy habits and purchases
• Parental Leave Top Up
• Weekly Friday companywide huddles for casual catch-ups with other departments
• Build next-level relationships with your peers through scheduled companywide virtual and in-person team-building events